{"id":203734,"date":"2025-08-01T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-t20-franchise-cricket-returns\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:08:48","slug":"namibia-t20-franchise-cricket-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-t20-franchise-cricket-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: T20 Franchise Cricket Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>T20 Franchise cricket returns this weekend when the sixth edition of the Namibia T20 Franchise series kicks off at the FNB Namibia Cricket Ground in Windhoek today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Four teams will play each other twice in a double round-robin format while the side that finishes on top of the log after the league matches will be declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">The T20 Franchise competition started in 2020 with BA Blasting being the dominant team in the early years by winning the title for the first three years in a row. New&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T20 Franchise cricket returns this weekend when the sixth edition of the Namibia T20 Franchise series kicks off at the FNB Namibia Cricket Ground in Windhoek today. Four teams will play each other twice in a double round-robin format while the side that finishes on top of the log after the league matches will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7026,26629,4706,724,257,5068,254,13525],"class_list":["post-203734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cricket","tag-franchise","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-t20"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}